Who Visits Your Tumblr Blog? - How to Add Visitor Counter Code to Tumblr Blogs

Sometimes its nice to know who's been visiting your blog and where they came from, rather than just a numbers game - "I had so many visitors last week" etc. Manufacture good use of visitor statistics can help you fine-tune copy and content if you're a serious online marketeer.

And if you're not, then there's still nothing more satisfying than seeing daily visitor numbers rise week on week. If nothing else, it proves you're doing something right.

Wordpress Theme

Blogger and WordPress blog platforms make it of course easy to quickly add stat programs like Google Analytics and StatCounter straight through their Admin User Panels. In Blogger's case, you plainly need to add a html/javascript tool and copy and paste the StatCounter tracking code into it. It of course is that simple.

Who Visits Your Tumblr Blog? - How to Add Visitor Counter Code to Tumblr Blogs

However, when I came to add StatCounter stats to my Tumblr account, I found it rather more challenging.

Tumblr is described as "a blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users are able to "follow" other users and see their posts together on their dashboard. You can like or reblog other blogs on the site and other users can do the same to your posts. The assistance emphasizes customizability and ease of use" (see Wikipedia)

I've been using Tumblr to correlate a fantasy iPod playlist, posting a different music track or video from YouTube each day. I now have a steady stream of fellow music lovers following my posts.

I couldn't find anyone in the help pages and most online searches drew a blank.

Then I found, practically by accident, the nugget of data I needed: how to setup javascript into your Tumblr template, and so I'd like to share that data with you here.

As with all template changes, please, please make sure you've got a back up somewhere first (expand widgets if you're doing such template changes on Blogger) as things can go wrong and be very very hard to recover from. You've been warned! (But don't let that put you off trying altogether).

So in my case, I wanted to setup the custom tracking javascript supplied by StatCounter. Here's what you do.

1 - Log into your Tumblr Account.
2 - Click the "Customise" link.
3 - Click "Theme" and then opt "Use custom Html".
4 - Scroll to the end of the code and paste your StatCounter code Just Before the

tags.
5 - Don't forget to click "Save Changes".
6 - Log back into your StatCounter catalogue to check that it is recording visits (unless you've purposefully blocked your Ip address from being recorded as a visit).

Jonathan C Crouch

Who Visits Your Tumblr Blog? - How to Add Visitor Counter Code to Tumblr Blogs